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An Actress wrecked in Port. ;.

Poor Aimee had suffered for years from
the tumo? that indirectly caused her death,
and her physicians had frequently advised
its removal, She, however, procrastinated,
and IL was only recently that she decided to
submit to.thc Inevitable Eve.. then she was
unwilling that any but a few OF her most in
innate friends should know the truth She
retired to a private hospital at Auteuil and,
in referring TO the operation, said:
at would he curious II anything should
happen to ne row, when have been several
times rouad the world and come safe and
sound ont OF ever SO many railway and
steamboat accidents
But as it - always "the unexpected that
happens, - the gifted singer was destined to
pass from life in precisely the why she
dee'nea least prohatis. After her many
"lairbreadth So .pes" it might be written on
het tombstone, Wrecked in port. Paris
COR. New Yorl. Star.
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Nowadays it is such an honor to kill
buffalo that whenever a cowboy secs
one he chases it in order to be able to say
that he has CHASED buffalo" and if he posi-
bly, can he shoots it to death in order that he
may carry back to his camp five pounds of
lean buffalo hump and have his name go
laundering down the ages. 1t would be an
interesting psychological study to determine
the exact workings of the mind of a man
who is capable of deliberately Staying a noble
animal, in the full knowledge that he can
make no earthly use of it, but must leave its
magnificent skin, its beautiful head and
several hundred pounds of fine flesh to the
miserable coyotes and the destroying ele-
ments. If such an act is not deliberate muir
der, in heavens name what is ita And yet
there are hundreds of intelligent men who
can do such things, and others who can oven
kill half a dozen tuskless elephants in one
forenoon and call it "sport. William T.
Holnaday in The Cosmopolitan.
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GOING SOMEWHERE.D

Ny science friend, my noblest woman friend
Now buried in an English grave-and this q
memory leaf for her dear sake)
Ended our talk-~The sum, concluding all we
know or old or modern learning. intuitions
deep,
0f all Geologies-of all Astronomy-of Evoln-
lions, Metaphysics all,
Is, that we all are onward, onward speeding slow
ly, surely lettering,
Life, life endless march, endless army
(no halt, but it is duly over,
The world, the race, the soul-in space and time
the universes,
All bound as is betting eaeh--au surely going
somewhere
Walt Whitman in Lippincotts.
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Fifteen hundred workmen, with their wives
and sweethearts, attended the annual picnic
of the United Labor party in Brommer's
Onion park. The festivities were begun in
the afternoon with games. There was an
egg race, in which only ladies were permitted
TO enter. There were nine entries Each
lady was obliged TO run short distance with
a spoon held out in front Of her containing
ON egg. The lady reaching the goal first
with the egg in its normal condition won the
prize There was a great deal of excitement,
especially among the mothers of the racers.
One of them shouted out 70 her daughter;
''Be keerful an not break that egg over yer
new dress Now York Sun.
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gyaSUMPTIVES.

n,lGersi yued having been re-
- Aonltlt by simple means, after
to several years with severe
iir, End that dread disease
ei@m, IS anxious to make
eDe, b.s fellow sufferers the means
~ et,'. hose who desire it, he will
.Hs ecnd free OF charge) a copy
rL saription used, which they
'NGn1a SIRE cure for Consumption,
.fn'na, Cafarrh, Bronchitis and
~ teroas end lung Maladies. He
Fs 4. sa'ilereLs WIZ WY ~ istine tHa
w. and may prove blessing, win
please address, REV. EDWARD A. VIII
sen, Williamsburg, Kings County,
View York
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A Colored Girls Name.

Il friend in the south asked a negro girl
hfr name.
Matilda was the answer.
But that isn't your only aame,r said the
lady
Thus encouraged the giYl glihly recited:
Matilda Malyina Minerva Virginia Victoria
Jane" tiIere my memory fails me, for my
friend reported the entire number of names
as eighty AT the end Of her recitation the
girl said proudly:
My grandmother named me
"Bnt haven't you any moro names than
.hatF asked her misohievous interrogation.
Conscious of having made q fair showing.
9he SRI was puzzled 90 answer SO unusual
question. At last she said slowly;
"Aiy grandmother died Boston Tran
script
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Conductor Sheldon, on the Susquehanua
division, is the father Of new craze. He has
aneat little book kept especially for the punch
marks of his conductor friends Ho has over
100 now, all different, and many Of the marks
are unique, They range from the perfect
circle, the crescent, the heart and other we'll
known symbols TO birds, rare crosses and
more intricate figures. Whenever Mr.. Shell.
don meets railroad conductor he passes thu
courtesies of the day with him and then
draws out his little book. 1t is quite curios-
ity,--Albany Journal
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A blanket mill, the first on tho African
continent, has just been opened at Capetown,
worked by Kaffir girls who receive twenty
four cents day. The report of the Kaiping
collicry in north China, made by Kwong
Yung Wang, gives twenty cents as tho daily
pay of engine men, fifteen cents for miners,
and thirteen cents for door and switch boys
The cotton and jute mills of Bombay pay
their operatives from ten to twelve cents a
day.---Chicago Herald.
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narmnny Between one TWO.

The normal diapason" has been adopted
this month for the bands of the German
army. This is the same pitch used in the
French army and makes probably the only
feature of harmony between the two coun-
tries. English soldiers still march TO music
pitched in what is known as the English
diapason, although that was abandoned sew
eral years ago by many English orchestras,
including that of the Royal Italian opera.
Chicago Herald.
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A one Armed Broom peddler.

Stephen McCabe, New York broom ped
dler, is the Capt. Cutie of his day. He
wears an iron hook in lieu of missing arm,
with which, he says, he can thread a needle,
write his name, or carry one end of n pack
ing box or trunk. "When / want to write, y
he says, II unscrew the hook and put my
pencil in the hole. TO thread needle | put
a cork in the hole and needle in the cork.
thread the needle with the other hand. ~
Chicago Herald.
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During the last ten years the taste for
oysters has been increasing at a remarkably
rapid rate among the Parisians. Over 200,
100000 of these bivalves were consumed in
the French capital last year-more than
double the quantity which sufliced for the
consumption Of the city in 1873. The price
remains almost what it was then, though in
Arcachon and the other centers Of production
it has declined The Debats affirms, fully so
per cent. during the decade.-New York
pocf
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Mere Luxuries.

Young Mr.. Waldo--Do you look upon a
knowledge of Homer and Virgil rs essential
to ones advancement, Miss Breezys
Miss Breezy necessarily so, Mr.. Waldo.
Papa doesn't know one from the other and
yet suppose he handles more lard than any
two men in Chicago York Sun.
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1t is probable that in the next twelve
months safe automatic coupers will be sub
stituted for the perilous link and pinn on
many roads, and that the mortality caused
by the use of the link and pin will be reduced.
About 40 railroad employees are killed every
year in this country while using the old
coupler, and more than 1900 are severely in
jured. Chicago Herald.
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Nineteenth Century Progress.

First Contractor-Are you through with
that square yeti
Second Contractor--Yes; just got tho paw
ing done.
"An doneF
Every foot"
''Very wen; remove your tools so can get
ready to tear it up."--Omaha World.
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Mexican War Veteran.

The wonderful efficacy Of swifrs Specific as
remedy and cure for rheumatism and ell blood dis
eases, has never had conspicuous illustration
than this affords. The candid unsolicited and
emphatic testimony given by tho venerable gentle
man must be accepted convincing and conclusive.
The writer Is prominent citizen Of Mississippi The
gentleman to whom Mr.. Martin refers, aud 20 whom
he Is indebted for the advice to which he owes, his
final relief from years of suffering. Is ar. King. for
many years the popular night clerk OF the Lawrence
House, at Jackson.
JACKSON, Miss, April 20, 1857.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY Atlanta Ga
Gcnfiemea-I have been an invalid pensoner for
forty years. having contracted pulmonary and other
diseases In tho Mexican War; but not tn the Ist OF
March, 1875. did feel any symptoms OF rheumatism.
On that day was suddenly stricken With that dis
case In both hips and nnklcB. For twenty days T
walked on crutches. Thea the pain less violent,
but II shifted from joint to iort For weeks would
the other. The pain never left me a moment for
eleven sass years and seven 4 from march,
when WIS cured Dusng tlese eleven Yeas q I'm
from various physicians, anu tried eyerythinp suc-
gested by friends. but II eyer received The lea
ternally, am not aware OF ~ Finally about II
first OF September, mado ARRANGEMENTS to go to Il
other remedy, when accidentally. met old a,
quaintance. Mr.. King, now ~ the Lawrence Hous
OF this city. He had once been great sufferer froH
rheumatism, and, as supposed had been cur0
by o visit TO Hot Springs But when met him he
told me that his visit to the Hot Springs IA vain
he found no relief On his returf. ffoin Hot Springs
no heard, for the first time, Of the s. y. $. remedy
for rheumatism He tried Il and slS bottles made
complete cure. Several years have passed since, but
he has had no return OF the disease.
imsmedlate,y returned 70 trS - II september
well--as far as the rheunatam was concerned An
OF 1T SINCE.
Ihave no interest I'm making this statement other
than the hope that II may direct other sufferer
TO sure source OF relief, AID II y he's this rssuitr
am well rewarded for my trouble. | am very re-
spectfully ana truly your friend.
J. VI. II. MARTIN.
For sale by all druggists. Treatise Blood and
SKIN Diseases mailed free.
TI-E swlFr SPECIFIC Co.,
Drawer O. Atlanta. Ca.
Juiy 1856
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The Duke of Westminster is brother-in-law
" his own daughter.
A Pardonnble Rlundcr.

Gagley-I hear your son has gone into
Journalism, madam.
Mrs. Malaprop- Yes; he's q contortionist
for the comic papers.
Gagley-H'ml Trying to make both ends
meet, supposel-Tid Bits
, 1887-02-05

The dcstinics of the assay Office are pre-
sided over by Andrew Mason. whose
official title is superintendent of the
United States assay Office at New York. -
The story OF the assay Office as told by
him is practically as follows;
The office IS intended to accommodate
the bullion interests of New York, and it
is used by brokers. bankers, merchants
and jewellers. Any one having gold or
silver, Which when assayed will amount
to $lO0 or over, may deposit it. lie will
receive its value in coin or in fine gold,
OF, if IT is silver. in fine silver bars. The
gold and silver bars have their weight
stamped upon them, and the former
bears, under the government seal, the
value in gold coin us well. The use of
these bars has saved the government IA
heavy expense, ms they have been largely
employed in the arts and manufactures.
thus preventing the melting down of
coin. Mr.. Mason thinks that $t2, 600,
600 in coin is thus saved annually. To
determine just how an exchange shall Ike
made "A chip is taken from the metal
brought to be assayed, and it is melted
by itself and poured into moulds. These
small samples are assayed, and by calcu-
lation the proportion of pure metal is in
dictated. of curse, deductions must be
made for parting, refining, etc. but the
net result is paid to the depositor. New
York Commercial Advertiser,
, 1887-02-05
THE wANTo OF PARTY DISCIPLINE

When the Republican party gains a
! majority of one or two in any Legislative
'r executive body. everyone of its mem
'ers may be depended upon TO vote for
,arty measures and party nominees.
There have been a few exceptions to this
uie, but these grew out of exceptional
auses, and might easily have been avoid
d il some ring had not undertaken to
push matters too far.
When the Democrats obtain a majority
Of one OF two in a legislature or other or
sanization, it often happens that one
nan, or perhaps more than one. hangs
put refusing to vote for the man or meas
Ire that is supported by his party col
eagues, and in a general way playing the
log in the manger act.
This has been 80 recently in Indiana
and New jersey. In both instances a
Democrat has been consorting with Re-
publicans to defeat a Democratic nom
inee. Both were elected as Democrats
and were in honor bound to go with their
party. 1t is Of small consequence to most
people, but The Democrats are to be com
mlsserated on always having some crank.
self seeker or traitor in their camp. A
legislative assembly with a majority of
only one or two, is a good enough Repub-
llcan Legislature for most purposes.
, 1887-02-05

Street providers of the male sex may
b. clas5ed in two distinct categories, the
pertinacious and the quietly respectful.
To the former belong the hulking young
fellow with a bunch of groundscl in his
hand. by way of protest against being
run in" by an over oficious bobby -
and the seedy individual who sidles mys
teriously up to you with the request that
you will spare a copper for Il pore
man" keeping pace with You for 100
yards or 80, and bestowing divers un-
complimentary epithets on your hard
heartelness in the event OF IA r.
fusal. The latter class includes the 81 :
parently bewildercd stranger i'll Lon
don. who stops to ask the nearest way
to Putney or Barnet, as the case may be.
and the decently dressed but apocryphal
mechanic, who has either just ONT out
of "a hospital or solicits your influence
with the authorities to get into one.
Then there is the portly Frenchman.
who may Ike met with any day in the
vicinity of Charing Cross, and who has
been wounded at Gravelottc or taken
prisoner at Sedan; and the old cronc. Il
fixture in Garrick street from ( to
in Tia, afternoon. who lcvir- black
mail on every well-dresscd pedestrian.
aud only wan II crutch to st for the
portrait of the malevolent liag issuing
nightly from the chest Of the merchant
Abudaii; nor must the pscudo-cabman
II Of work be forgotten. whom You
never siw before in your life. but who
distinctly remembers having ''druv'
your hunoi many and many IA time. and
, 1887-02-05

What happens i, rather IL rest from the
rapid movements of waking life, during
which the slower activities OF function
have time To overtake the faster one
~Lecuperation 10y nutrition isa more tardy
process than consumption by work and
heat production, and if the hare wer,. not
to sleep the tortoise would be left hope
lessly behind. Ii is essential to health
that the tortoise should not lag far in the
rear. AMI sleep must Ike just ms long "a.
will cnabl' the laggard nutritivc process
to ovcftalc the impetuous destructive
processes. Practically. therefore, It lnan
should sleep until he is refreshed
The mistake MANY persons make is i'll
attempting Ia govern what must b' Il
matter OF instinct by volitional control.
When we are weary We ought to sleep,
and when we wake we should get up.
There are no more vicious habits than
adopting measures to keep awake, or en-
ploy ing articles, OF still worse, rcsorting
10 drugs and other devices to induce ar
prolong sleep. Doing is the very dcuor-
aliAltlon of the sleep function. and from
that pcrnicious habit arise much of the
80 called -leeple-snyss more accurately
wakefulne-s-from which multimdes
suffer. London Lancet.
, 1887-02-05

In a japanese hotel the kitchen is AZ
ways the principal room in the house.
and near the entrance. The first thing
that strikes rs is the row OF large hlu,
plat.crs arranged around the wall IN -
shelf rack near the ceiling. have come
10 regard these platters as n test of the
prosperity of the house. If they are
many and large-threc feet acrosS-the
hotel is ilourishing; if few and small. the
reverse. SO the first thought is, ''IIow
are the platters.' We are shown oui
roons-upstairs always, if possible-md,
leaving our shoes behind, walk upon the
loft mats in our stocking feet. lmmc-
diately a servant brings tea and a tray oi
tiny cups. without saucens; then tobacco
and a small firebox, for smoking pur-
poses. Now all the visitors in the housc
ami all the neighbors who can crowd in
have arrived. and are in our rooms and
IRE cxamining us.
" think we would like To wash our
hands and faces and then have something
10 cat. so We clap our hands three times.
and a servant screams ',hi, and o -
appears. lowing, and asks what we want.
We call for water. which is brought in Il
large bucket with a wooden handle. and
n flat copper basin. which are placed on
the front vcranda. There We perform
our additions. in full view of the crowd
ia the street below us. Little table,
about rs large as a small napkin, are
placed before each on the floor. We
order rice. which is brought in "A small
tub with bright brass hoops. We ask for
eggs. and they bring thirty for -four per-
sons. We use our own knives and forks,
and the visitors look at us and then ut
each other and smile admiringly Cor.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
, 1887-02-05

tbs alleged COW doctors who assume
that the payment Of twenty five cents per
week to the circulator of a daily newspa
per should give them control of the col
umns of the journal they endow thus lib
orally. are Of that class who persist in de-
claring that plcuro-rneumonia exists in
the West. in order to continue drawing a
fat salary and ''incidentals' from the gen
eral tax fund. These schemers are now
lobbying to get a large appropriation from
congress for the purpose Of increasing
their perquisites. Members Of congress,
however. have dropped on their game, as
evidenced by the discussion on the pleuro-
pneumonia bill last Wednesday. The
debate was an instructive one, and the
Cow doctor ring" was the object Of some
very pertinent remarks from several dis
iinguished members.
, 1887-02-05
HARD WORKED NoveLIsrs.


.==a-=
A BooiWrlrr Thinks lie Would ~Iiattrer
he "a Iaborcr Than n story Writer.
j believe | would rather work on The
aqueduct than write books for n living.
looking ut it merely as q matter ol
manual labor. s'id n Broadway book
seller. wlso-e acricnce runs back a
quarter 81 i oci.urq. did you ever
think Of what the lahors of writing
merely moving the pen over the paper.
to say nothing of tho mental strain
must be in writing an ordinary book?
Take a novel like one of Mr.. Howell.
for instance. 1t contains say $50 pages
with an average of 400 words to tho
page. + lao. 900 words. How many
hours Of composition do You suppose that
means: Well. 1.40O words an hour is
considered t. pretty good gait even if you
know exactly what you want to say and
can clip along without stopping to study
construction. That would mean. at
least. under the most favorable circum-
,tanccs imaginable, 100 hours Of writing.
Now few authors can compose steadily
more than two hours a day. Surprising,
therefore, that the author knows exactly
what he a II to write every day and
can pillow on without interruption, it
would take fifty days to grind out II
book like one of Mr.. Howells'. But
many authors have assured me that on
an average they write each book over
three times before they are satisfied to
leave it. When you consider, besides
this. hat the labor of writing is. Of
course, the merest trifle compared with
the Other labors of authorship, you can
see that there is no picnic about it.
when you think of all these things,
the amount of work done by some of our
leading novelists seems prodigious. There
is Miss Braddon, for instance. Her tire
less pen has already raced through fifty
complete works of fiction, and there is no
probability-hope, some people might
say-that her supply will run short for
twenty years to come. Probably there
are 1000, 900 printed words in these
books, and to write them her hand must
have travelled over $1,000 or 60, 900
sheets of paper, even on the supposition
that she never tore up or rewrote a
sheet. Sixty thousand sheets of manu-
script paper would make n pile as high as
this room. Surprising that Miss Braddon
labors under the same limitations as other
writers, she has probably written over
three or four such piles in the past fifteen
Or twenty years io 10 .ha' Is 10 JoSe,
, can zen you re. there are Dthers WHO
nav zone nearly "S much' me "olhs
Oh II Duchess are huhloereu IN .he
iorties' Inc author OF DORA ihorhe mas
written th~irty-hihe' Mr, biack mas VIII
zen twenty-five novels; bes'iht n hlce
.urheu OUT twenty -,nrec' anu "nhie Ooi,
nh7 mas puoiisheu thhrty-.wo' Divhehs
"o'hs' ih''uunis ms sketches, ,ohec'eu
mo Voiuiies ana ,he story tiat ne "tote
,"nn "nN,e Ooiihs' MAKE 'hirty ,Ne
, 1887-02-05

some of the ''dodge- which have been
Escorted to i'll order to carry diamonds
from the diggings have been not a little ~
markablc. We have only room, how
ever, Tor u sample or two. Upon II Ok
ca,iuu it is related that an ingenious la
horer wrapped the stones in Il small piece
of soft bread, tho morscl being grecdily
snapped by II dog. The dog was care
fully looked after till the mine was left
behind, when It was ruthlessly killed To
obtain the hidden diamonds, which wrr.
contained in the stomach. Domestic
fowls have been trained to swallow the
smaller stones, which have alterwarl
Srcn cut out of their crops. \ parcel Of
stolen gems has been known To have been
got out OF "A well watched digging by
having been ingeniously fastened to the
hair Of a horses tail. Chambers
journal.
, 1887-02-05

ID. w. Morris, wholesale and retail
druggist. 1879 Commercial street, Emporia,
Kan, Jan. 10, 1857. To CHAMBERLAIN
h Co., Des Moines, Ia Gentlemen-In
sending to you the enclosed order Tor a
gross of your Cough Remedy, allow me to
say hat without any exception it is the
best selling goods now in the market. |
have sold a great amount of it during the
past year to the citizens of this place, and
have the first complaint to hear. 1t is the
best article to use for croup | ever sold,
being pleasant to take, which Is an i'm
portant feature where children have to
take medicine. Sold by DR.. W. N. Hunt
, 1887-02-05

THE LEADER agrees with the San on
the proposition that politics should be
excluded from the CITY council, and there
fore objects to extreme partisanship dis
played b. the Republicans in that body
in SO arranging all committees as to give
the three Republican members the con
troll Of all legislation. 1t required such
an adroit arithmetician as Judge Bergman
to divide the three Republican councilmen
into SO many parts tina: all the important
committees. comprising five members
each, contained a majority of Republi-
cans
, 1887-02-05

The Canadian law, passed last year,
amendatory Of the act touching fishing by
foreign vessels, provide that on mere sus-
picion any American vessel may be
searched if found in Canadian waters,
even if the captains have complied with
the customs regulations 1t is the avowed
Canadian intention TO enforce this law,
rather han what Canada has done, which
has stirred up the American hornets nest.
That law will not be enforced rex sum
mer when American vessels visit those
Uatara